Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assuming peace is a reality, some exiled Palestinians could resettle in Israel. Conversely, some Israelis would be allowed to establish communities in the West Bank, where there was a historic Jewish presence-near Hebron for example...
Jerusalem. Israelis have vivid memories of the 1948-67 Jordanian rule, when the city was divided. Jews were illegally denied access to the ancient Temple's Western Wall and the Jewish quarter of the Old City was looted and damaged. Muslims answer that the Old City is, and traditionally has been, mainly Arab in population and that they should have it back...
...East Jerusalem, including the Old City, and its new suburban settlements. The Old City, with its many holy shrines, would be turned into a self-administered, internationalized community-in effect, a Vatican of the Middle East. Mount Scopus, the site of Hebrew University, would remain Israeli, connected to the Jewish state by a strip of land. The rest of East Jerusalem would be linked to the entity and could even serve as its administrative capital, just as West Jerusalem serves as Israel's capital. In any formula, unhindered access to the holy shrines-which would be administered...
...father's father,/ You are your children's guilt." The funny and unforgiving stories of The World Is a Wedding (1948) remain some of the best work in a genre that has shown the world what it felt like in the Depression to be young, Jewish, and lost, somewhere between the Old Country and the New Criticism...
...born in New York City and spent his early childhood in Bayside, a pinkish nook of Queens. His grandmother had been private secretary to Socialist Leader Eugene Debs. His father was a passionate Zionist, and his mother was always peddling leftist petitions. "When you were poor and Jewish in New York," says Dreyfuss, "you were either a left-winger or you were dead...